February 2017 Vol. 5 No.2

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Original Research Article

Irrigation Water Resources and Suitability for Crops in Egypt

Ahmed Ibrahim Mohamed

Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia – Egypt, 41522

E-mail: ah-med_shabaka@yahoo.com
Tel.: +201010035003

Accepted February 13, 2017

Abstract

Agriculture is dependent on an adequate water supply of usable water quality. Water quality concerns have often been neglected because good quality water supplies. This situation is now changing in many areas. Intensive use of nearly all good water quality supplies means that new irrigation projects seeking new or supplemental supplies must rely on lower quality and less desirable sources. To avoid problems when using these poor quality water supplies, there must be sound planning to en-sure that the quality of water available is put to the best use. This study investigated determinants of water quality in Suez Canal Region, Egypt. There are four sources of irrigation water as follows: Nile water (Ismailia canal), well water, drainage water and blended water (El-Salam Canal Project). Data on water quality (water class) for 32 monitoring points were used for analysis. Different chemical proper-ties of irrigation water of Suez Canal Region cities were com-pared with the international water quality standards for irrigation. According to standards, there are No problems of chemical properties of irrigation quality. Evaluation of water quality in Suez Canal Region (especially in Ismailia Governorate) for irrigation were carried out using different index methods, for example ESP, SSP, SAR, RSC, PI, KR and EC; among these, majority of index results were similar to PI and KR implying that the 100% of the samples fall under excellent and were excellent to good category.

Key Words: Water Quality, Drainage Water, Well Water, Blended water, Crop Tolerance